Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are.
JOJO MOYESI can’t do this because I can’t…I can’t be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this – this just becomes…another reminder of what I am not.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt.
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She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn’t be laughing.
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
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You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously.
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And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.
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You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.
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Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
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Just hold on. Just for a minute.” “Are you all right ?” I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
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I’m not going to try and change you mind.” “If you’re here, you accept it’s my choice. This is the first thing I’ve been in control of since the accident.” “I know.” And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it.
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I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
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Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.
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I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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